A quote to change how you wake up, every morning:
“The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up, it’s a brand-new sun. It’s born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day, and in the evening it passes on, never to return again. As soon as the children are old enough to understand, the adults take them out at dawn and they say, ‘The sun has only one day. You must live this day in a good way, so that the sun won’t have wasted precious time.’ Acknowledging the preciousness of each day is a good way to live, a good way to reconnect with our basic joy.” ~ Pema Chödrön
Listen to Waylon read the quote aloud to nearly 3,000 good humans in our Elephant Community:
>> Spend an hour with Waylon Lewis this Friday, April 24th, free. Save your spot here. <<
Elephant’s Week 1 Worldwide Retreat: What if it took Solitude to bring our World Together?
Dear Mindful Community,
This morning, 2,750 of you joined me, live, on video, from all over the world. Brazil. United Kingdom. Egypt. Even Florida.
That was so joyful to see and feel. Hope you found joy in this community, in the meditation and tonglen.
If you didn’t make it, you can watch it below. And register to join us for the remaining weeks of Elephant’s (Free) Community Retreat: One month to Write, Meditate, & Connect—with Waylon Lewis, here.
If you did join, how was it? And where in the world are you?
Everyone’s suddenly doing webinars. We’re spending more time online than ever. But if all we do during this Coronavirus time is find a new way to create busy, we’ll have lost this once-in-a-lifetime chance to connect through boredom and busyness into our hearts, into active empathy, active love, into making a real change.
You can do it.
In that spirit, next Friday’s contemplative writing exercise is not about more. It’s about heart, community, joy. Now is the time for our world to connect, gather, and figure a way forward, together, so we can live every day from our good heart. You can join us here.
Elephant’s Week 2 Worldwide Retreat: The Fourth Kind of Love is what our World needs Now.
Dear Mindful Community,
Thanks, you, for joining. Nearly 4,000 of you, from all over our globe…offering up your specificity, your voice, your cathartic empathy and active, not passive love in service.
We’ll do it again next Friday, and the Friday after that, and if it continues to be inspiring and fun and Four Kinds of Loveful for you all, maybe we’ll continue.
If you didn’t make it to our week two retreat live, you can watch the replay below:
Elephant’s Week 3 Worldwide Retreat: Let it be, let it be. Busyness is laziness. My favorite poem. ~ Waylon
Dear Mindful Community,
Thanks, you, for joining. May we use that hour to invest in good loneliness, ugly letting go, less busyness and laziness, and, yes: love in service.
Don’t forget to read my favorite poem—it’s timely, now.
We’ll do it again next Friday, and if it continues to be inspiring and fun and if you invite one loved one, and it continues to grow and be of service, we’ll continue to offer this part of Elephant Academy, free.
If you didn’t make it to our week three retreat live, you can watch the replay below:
Elephant’s Week 4 Worldwide Retreat: How to use this f*cking quarantine to change your life & our fragile world for the better, for good.
Dear Mindful Community,
Thank you for joining us again, or for the first time, this week.
Invite a friend so we can get to 6,000 next week: elephantjournal.com/retreat (If we do, we’ll continue!)
And, a reminder: the discount below won’t last. It’s break-even for us to be able to pay our team, which they deserve. So jump in, and enjoy Elephant Academy at well off what it’s ever been offered.
Join the Elephant Academy community, learn, expand, grow—and get ready for what’s next in this wild, sweet, hard world of ours.
If you didn’t make it to our week three retreat live, you can watch the replay below:
If you’re inspired to go all the way, and join the Elephant Academy community and get all the lessons therein, it’s far more affordable than it’s ever been, or ever will be again, right now, for now.
I’m offering 60% off an already affordable program, because now is for going deeper. Use code: WRITINGCLUB
We’re making the Academy Trainings Free—for a Month:
60% off Elephant Academy, here.
Yours in the Vision of Enlightened Society,
Waylon Lewis
Editor-in-Chief, Elephant Journal
Editor-in-Chief, Elephant Journal
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